March 2019

March 05, 2019

To end tuberculosis, we must invest in a more streamlined approach [2]

[2]Nurse Gabriella Oroma welcomes patients at Ngetta Health Centre in Uganda, where drug-resistant TB is treated. Photo credit: Sarah Lagot/MSH

By Dr. Ersin Topcuoglu
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This op-ed was originally published in The Hill [5].

Beating TB in Afghanistan: Leave no health system stone unturned [7]

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The chart above shows the good-news-bad-news scenario that is the decades-long fight against TB in Afghanistan. TB is still a crushing problem there; the country has among the world’s highest rates of the disease, which killed some 10,000 people [8] in 2017. But if you glance at this chart and think that we haven’t made much progress, look again. We’re finding and treating more people with TB in Afghanistan than ever before. In 2001, we were missing three quarters of presumptive TB patients — that is a whopping 75% gap in case detection.

Read more [7]

Links
[1] https://www.msh.org/blog/2019/03/05/to-end-tuberculosis-we-must-invest-in-a-more-streamlined-approach#comments
[2] https://www.msh.org/blog/2019/03/05/to-end-tuberculosis-we-must-invest-in-a-more-streamlined-approach
[3] https://www.msh.org/blog-categories/health-systems-strengthening
[4] https://www.msh.org/
[5] https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/430449-to-end-tuberculosis-we-must-invest-in-a-more-streamlined-approach?utm_source=MSH+Staff+Worldwide&utm_campaign=f65e7ed3d5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_GHSAC_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4ca7973e91-f65e7ed3d5-136846257
[6] https://www.msh.org/blog/2019/03/12/beating-tb-in-afghanistan-leave-no-health-system-stone-unturned#comments
[7] https://www.msh.org/blog/2019/03/12/beating-tb-in-afghanistan-leave-no-health-system-stone-unturned
[8] https://extranet.who.int/sree/Reports?op=Replet&name=/WHO_HQ_Reports/G2/PROD/EXT/TBCountryProfile&ISO2=AF&outtype=pdf